Tag: voting

Leftist Defends Mass Mail In Ballots While Admitting The USPS Sucks

CNN legal so-called analyst Norm Eisen used an appearance on the network to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots while casting doubt on the U.S. Postal Service’s capacity to enforce it.

“No mail-in voting is currently being affected by this rule; it’s grossly unconstitutional, and we and others have gone to court to stop it—we will stop it—and voters should know that this idea that the Postal Service is going to screen every mail-in voter and mail-in ballot in the country is not going to happen,” Eisen said, according to a clips of the interview.

In the same discussion, Eisen quipped that “they can’t even deliver my utility bill on time” and argued that USPS therefore cannot “turn into a kind of super registrar for every voter in the land,” using his own mail delays to contradict his defense of mail in ballot voting to begin with.

His comments came after the Supreme Court, in a 6–3 unsigned order, allowed Trump to move forward with key portions of the March executive order that directs the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security to build voter-eligibility lists and limit mail-ballot delivery, while explicitly declining to decide the order’s legality leaving it open for further litigation amongst the states across the country.

The justices said the states that sued lacked standing because any harms were still “conjectural or hypothetical,” lifting a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts that had blocked the USPS provisions in 23 states and Washington, D.C.

Even after the Supreme Court’s intervention, Talwani and other lower-court judges have questioned the constitutionality of using USPS to “police” mail voting, with earlier rulings emphasizing that election rules belong to state legislatures and Congress.

Keep reading

Tax-deductible ‘charities’ served as pipelines to Democrat voter registration: report

Leftist nonprofits are using pass-through organizations to boost voter registration for demographics most likely to vote for Democrats, a new report alleges.

The report, titled “The ‘Charities’ influencing elections: 2024 and beyond,” written by the Capital Research Center (CRC), found that multiple left-leaning 501(c)(3)s, which are prohibited from engaging in any political campaign for or against a candidate and whose donations are tax deductible, acted as conduits for 501(c)(4)s, which are permitted to engage in direct partisan politics. 

Those tax-exempt organizations spent $638 million during the 2024 election cycle, according to the report, to register voters most likely to vote for Democrats.

Three 501(c)(3)s – America Votes Education Fund (AVEF), Guarantee Our Votes Project (GOVP) and Democracy Matters Foundation – effectively routed their entire annual expenditure to affiliated 501(c)(4) organizations while conducting almost no independent program activity. 

America Votes Education Fund: AVEF reported on its most recent IRS Form 990s that it gave $20,748,002 in grants to its 501(c)(4) affiliate America Votes while spending just $532 in office expenses and $274 in fundraising expenses in 2024, and paid no employees. 

Further, three 501(c)(3) board members are also the president, chief operating officer, and treasurer of the 501(c)(4). America Votes, whose donations are not tax-deductible, says that its mission is to “create a fairer, more representative democracy by increasing voter participation across the country. Our coalition carries out non-partisan, education-focused programs to engage voters, particularly newly eligible and infrequent voters.”

Guarantee Our Votes Project: GOVP spent just 0.2% of its $13,919,873 expenditures in 2024 on legal and office expenses; the remainder went to grants, including $13.85 million to America Works USA and $30,0000 to the New Hampshire Youth Movement project. The amounts represent a massive increase in spending from the previous year, when GOVP gave out just $166,016 in grants.

America Works USA’s website is just one page, describing its mission as finding “unique and creative ways to promote progressive policy, strengthen our democracy, and build powerful infrastructure in states.”

Democracy Matters Foundation: DMF provided 96% of its 2024 expenditures to grants, according to its 990s, giving $31.38 million to its affiliated 501(c)(4), Democracy Matters, which says it exists to “connect and build a community of pro-democracy donors.”

None of the nonprofits listed above responded to a Just the News inquiry prior to press time.

Scott Walter, president of CRC, who was recently interviewed on “Just the News, No Noise,” detailed two other organizations that follow the same pattern.

“If you want to win elections, what do you need to do? You have to register voters, and then you have to get them to vote,” he said. 

“Well, that’s what this machinery is focused on. And you have groups like the Voter Participation Center and the Voter Registration Project that claim they just are help – you know they’re helping people do their civic duty.

“But they micro-target their efforts to where they will turn out the most Democratic votes, and they claim that this is still charitable. But you know, you look at Voter Participation Center in an election year. They may spend two-thirds of their money that year on for-profit Democratic Party micro-targeting firms. Now, do you think: ‘Does that sound like nonpartisan charity work to you?'”

Keep reading

Wyoming GOP Gov. Mark Gordon Whines About ‘Aggressive, Unexpected’ DOJ Election Monitors – Orders Investigation

Wyoming Republican Gov. Mark Gordon is complaining about federal election monitors sent to observe last week’s primary elections.

Gordon is also ordering an investigation after Justice Department officials attempted to examine voting procedures in the state.

Two DOJ monitors arrived at a polling location in Cheyenne last Tuesday as part of a federal effort to ensure elections comply with voting and civil-rights laws.

According to Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee, the monitors asked questions about election procedures, sought to speak with voters and requested access to voting equipment.

Local officials refused some of those requests, and Gordon was less than pleased.

“It was aggressive, unexpected, disruptive and certainly didn’t seem to show respect for the state,” Gordon moaned.

“We’re going to get to the bottom of it as best we can.”

Keep reading

Homeland Security warns of Chinese parts in election machines, will require paper ballot audits

The Homeland Security Department will require random audits of paper ballots in the midterm elections, citing long-simmering concern that the nation’s largest voting technology companies use Chinese parts in their voting machines, according to a letter from Secretary Markwayne Mullin released Thursday.   

Mullin sent the letter to the White House Transparency Task Force earlier this week outlining the dangers posed by Chinese components in American voting machines and the way that these components could be exploited by hackers or other malicious actors.

The letter highlighted longstanding concerns first raised in a bipartisan manner before the 2020 election, but which officials appear to have taken little action on in the intervening years.

“Voting machines with components manufactured by foreign adversaries introduce significant security risks,” Mullin wrote. “These vulnerabilities mean that malicious actors could potentially compromise election infrastructure at any stage of the supply chain, even before the machines are assembled or deployed.” 

The secretary explained, “If a component is tampered with during manufacturing, it could serve as a point-of-entry for hackers, allowing for the possibility of synchronized attacks across multiple machines and jurisdictions.”

Two Biden administration Intelligence Community memos in 2024 identified China as “the most active and persistent cyber threat” and assessed that China, along with Iran and Russia, has “the technical capability to access some U.S. election-related networks and systems.”  

You can read Mullin’s letter below: 

08.20.2026 – WHTF Letter Commerce – S1 SIGNED.pdf

Earlier this year, the Trump administration took drastic action to ban the import of all internet routers manufactured in foreign countries because of the unacceptable security risks posed by Chinese hacking capabilities.

Internet routers connect computers, cellphones, and other electronic devices to the internet, the backbone of the modern economy.

Keep reading

How Endless Injunctions Are Manufacturing Election Chaos

SCOTUS dragged its feet on an emergency motion, finally clearing the way on August 24 (Trump v. California) by staying an injunction against EO 14399 on technical standing grounds and ‘ripeness’. Everyone thought the fight was over – now the next battle has unfolded.

While the Supreme Court focused on docket No. 26A124, a separate, standing injunction was sitting in League of Women Voters v. Trump. Here is what actually went down after August 24:

· Aug 24 (Emergency Motion to Reconsider): The federal government rushed to District Judge Indira Talwani, using SCOTUS’s brand-new ruling to vacate the second injunction.

· Aug 25/26 (Injunction Lifted): Judge Talwani agreed with SCOTUS’s logic, vacating the August 11 preliminary injunction because challenging the order before official rules were published was deemed “premature”.

· Aug 26 (The Rule Drops): With the court barriers down, the USPS immediately published its Final Rule in the Federal Register. In response, the League of Women Voters and state AGs instantly filed supplemental complaints and NEW emergency motions for a TRO against the finalized rule.

· Sept 3 (The Next Showdown): Judge Talwani scheduled a hearing for September 3, 2026, to rule on these new TRO motions against the USPS.

SCOTUS didn’t end the fight – it triggered a lightning-fast procedural reset. The administration published the rule, and the plaintiffs filed new emergency filings targeting the finalized regulation.

While the plaintiffs argue that the timing and magnitude of these executive requests will adversely affect election administration, the plaintiffs themselves are directly contributing to the timing issues, confusion, and chaos.

By continually dragging these measures through endless litigation, they keep the entire country in a perpetual state of limbo – leaving voters, election workers, and government agencies trapped in a web of uncertainty over whether rules will stand or if another TRO will drop.

The judicial process was designed for checks and balances, not perpetual obstruction that turns the rule of law into a chaotic mess.

Unite4Freedom has consistently used existing state and federal laws as the bedrock for their arguments and efforts to achieve valid, transparent, and auditable elections.

While the administration is stepping up to implement common-sense measures necessary to bolster election security and verify voter integrity, certain individuals, political parties, and special interest organizations appear to have an extreme aversion to any meaningful improvement in election administration, security, or validity

…we have to ask ourselves why.

Keep reading

Appeals court blocks Minnesota’s censorship of election integrity group over felon voting

Minnesota is a leader among states testing First Amendment limits on regulating speech and expression in the name of protecting the public, with its mandatory social media warning labels and criminal bans on AI-generated “nudification” – including barechested men – and election-related “deepfakes” that mock politicians.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to block the deepfake law by reading an unwritten parody exception into it, wasn’t so tolerant when it came to Minnesota’s potential censorship of an election integrity group.

A three-judge panel ordered a lower court to block a voter-interference law as applied to the Minnesota Voters Alliance and its members as their case moves forward, leaving them free to publicly assert — without risking prosecution — that the Land of 10,000 Lakes violates its constitution by letting felons vote before their “civil rights” have been “restored.”

“A group of Minnesotans want to express their belief that certain felons cannot vote. Can the state criminalize their speech? In denying a preliminary injunction, the district court thought so. We disagree,” Judge David Stras wrote for the unanimous panel, nominated by presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, faulting the law as a prior restraint without “procedural safeguards.”

House File 3 works in tandem with HF 28, which restores voting rights to felons whenever they are “not incarcerated for the offense” – even if they are still serving the sentence – by criminalizing the spread of certain information within 60 days of an election. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed both laws in 2023.

HF 3’s “deceptive practices” section prohibits transmitting information that “intends to impede or prevent another person from exercising the right to vote” and is known to be “materially false,” including “the qualifications for or restrictions on voter eligibility at an election.” 

“The Alliance is worried that it already has a target on its back” from both state and county prosecutors, who can “pursue gross-misdemeanor charges” against alleged violators and civil actions “to prevent or restrain a violation,” Stras’s opinion says. The law also lets anyone “injured by” a supposed violation bring civil actions.

Anoka County buttressed MVA’s case by bringing a counterclaim after it sued Attorney General Keith Ellison and Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson, by seeking money damages and an injunction against MVA for violating the law, according to the voter integrity group.

ACLU supports election censorship law

The Upper Midwest Law Center and Liberty Justice Center, which represent MVA and its members, cheered the ruling. 

“The First Amendment does not allow the government to end an argument by threatening prosecution,” UMLC President Doug Seaton said. 

Minnesota cannot “silence political debate simply because an election is near,” LJC senior counsel Reilly Stephens said.

Ellison’s office told Just the News “we’re evaluating all of our options to best protect Minnesotans’ freedom to vote.” 

Protect Democracy United counsel Cameron Kister accused the 8th Circuit panel of violating its own precedent. 

“The Minnesota Deceptive Practices Provision is not a statute that targets falsity and nothing more; it is a statute that targets falsity deployed to accomplish a harm the common law has recognized for centuries,” the progressive activist wrote.

In line with its turn against free speech for select groups since the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, the ACLU supported Ellison and Johnson in a friend-of-the-court brief, arguing the election censorship law is narrowly tailored and responded to “incidents of purposeful, targeted election disinformation aimed at preventing voters from exercising their constitutional right.”

The elected Democrats already triumphed over MVA’s constitutional challenge to the felon-voting law itself, which the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed on the grounds that the “taxpayer standing” asserted by MVA and its members “does not exist when a taxpayer simply seeks to generally restrain ‘illegal action[s] on the part of public officials.'”

Keep reading

EXPOSED: You Can Register to Vote in California Today With NO Driver’s License and NO Social Security Number — Then Show a Gym Card or Insurance Card at the Polls

Fox News national correspondent Matt Finn just walked through California’s official online voter registration system.

What he found is the same gap The Gateway Pundit has been warning about for months: Democrat-run California will let you skip a California ID and skip a Social Security number, then treat a health-club card like “photo identification.”

In a post on X, Finn demonstrated that applicants using California’s online voter-registration portal can indicate that they have neither a California driver’s license or identification card nor a Social Security number.

Finn wrote:

“See it: if you register to vote online in California today you can check ‘No ID’ and ‘No Social Security number.’ The website says first time voters *may be asked to show ID at the ballot box. The CA Secretary of State lists things like a gym or insurance card as acceptable photo identification.”

The screenshots accompanying Finn’s report show both boxes checked on the state’s registration website.

California’s own Secretary of State website confirms that an applicant may leave the identification fields blank.

“If you do not have a driver license, California identification card or Social Security card, you may leave that space blank,” the state explains.

Keep reading

Democrat Clerk’s Office Employee in Arkansas Gets ZERO Prison Time After Pleading to Felony for Illegally Altering 132 Voter Records

A former employee of the Democrat-run Pulaski County clerk’s office in Arkansas walked out of court this week with no prison time after pleading no contest to a Class D felony for illegally altering election records.

Circuit Judge Karen Whatley on Tuesday approved a plea agreement giving 58-year-old Deborah Smith of North Little Rock a two-year suspended prison sentence and a $300 fine.

The Class D felony initially carried a maximum sentence of six years behind bars, according to Just the News.

In other words, an election worker deliberately manipulated more than 100 voter records, and walked out of court without spending a day in prison.

Smith worked in the clerk’s Voter Registration Department when the records were altered in October 2024.

The scheme affected 132 voters assigned to Precinct 051.02 in North Little Rock. Their precinct information was switched to Precinct 001.04 in Maumelle, meaning affected voters could receive ballots containing races from the wrong city while omitting contests in which they were legally entitled to vote.

The manipulation was discovered after early voting began on October 21, 2024, when a voter complained that a desired candidate was missing from the ballot.

Keep reading

‘You will receive a $25 gift card’: It looks like Democrats are buying votes, investigation confirms

An investigative journalist has unleashed a new report, heading into the 2026 midterm elections, explaining that it looks like Democrats are buying votes.

It is Natalie Winters whose report cites publicized Democrat giveaways include gift cards, food and concert tickets.

She noted one situation developed just before Arizona’s 2026 primary, with a “nonprofit” run by the former executive director of the Navajo County Democrats, who also previously worked for Hillary Clinton.

That group “invited Native voters to a ‘Ballot Party’ with food and said attendees would be ‘filling out our mail-in primary ballots together,'” she explained.

Then there was Florida, where “an Instagram account operated by a recent Democratic state House candidate advertised free fish dinners for people who brought a new voter to register.”

And, “In Georgia, a nonprofit funded for voter-registration and turnout work said it would give out $25 gift cards to people who brought an adult to register,” she confirmed.

Even more, “Nationally, a nonprofit funded by the dark-money organization behind the largest pro-Kamala Harris super PAC is running 2026 giveaways offering $400 gas cards, $500 grocery cards and a concert package worth approximately $4,900—while collecting personal information that it says is matched against voter files.”

The instructions appeared clear in a flyer for a fish fry at Movement for Change in Florida: “Bring someone to register to vote and receive a free fish dinner along with your new register voter.”

That social media statement appeared to come form Haley Morrissette, a Democratic state House candidate in 2024.

“The money trail leads to Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute. Its tax filings report a $14,500 ‘GOTV’ grant in 2022 and a $9,100 ‘GOTV/Voter Registration’ grant in 2023 to Movement for Change—a combined $23,600,” Winters documented.

“You will receive a $25 gift card,” promised an Instagram account for Eyvone’s Porch In-Centive Inc., if you “bring someone 18 years or older to register to vote.”

Winters reported, “EPIC is a Moultrie, Georgia, 501(c)(3) that describes voter registration and turnout as part of its work. The organization’s website thanks Black Voters Matter as a partner and says founder Carol Simpson received a ‘Georgia Democratic Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2026. The site does not identify who issued that award.”

The investigation explained the Arizona stunt: “Arizona Native Vote published its Facebook invitation on July 11, 2026. It invited Hopi residents to a July 17 event in Polacca featuring ‘conversation, food, fun’ and ‘filling out our mail-in primary ballots together.’

“Arizona’s official calendar shows that early ballots had already been mailed. The event occurred just four days before the July 21 primary,” the report said.

The Native Vote organization got a $200,000 Henry Luce Foundation grant on March 5, 2026, for ‘Indigenous Knowledge.’ Official Katz Amsterdam Foundation records disclose another $375,000 across 2023, 2024 and 2025 for voter registration and civic engagement in rural and tribal communities. A Black Voters Matter 2024 Form 990 also lists $20,000 in general operating support,” Winters said.

She delivered multiple other examples of offerings for gas cards, grocery cards, Visa cards, concert experiences and more.

The report does confirm some offerings call themselves “incentive-driven voter-file” operations, so they are not a “proven payment for casting a vote.”

Keep reading

Oregon County Clerk Registered 397 Inactive Voters in a Single Day — Investigators Say 40 Are DEAD and One “Voted” 14 Years After Dying

A shocking new election-integrity investigation out of Oregon has uncovered hundreds of suspicious voter records, including dozens reportedly belonging to dead people, and one record allegedly showing a woman voting 14 years after her death.

Independent journalist Right Side Rebel reported on X that Douglas County Clerk Dan Loomis registered 397 inactive voters in one day under instructions from Democrat Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read’s office.

Right Side Rebel, working with election-integrity investigators Samantha Frost and Richard McNamara, said they have already confirmed that at least 40 of those individuals are deceased. More than 100 are reportedly listed as over 100 years old.

But the most explosive discovery involved a voter who allegedly died in 2008 yet was credited in Oregon’s election system with voting in 2022, 14 years after her death.

Right Side Rebel wrote:

“County Clerk says the Oregon Secretary of State made him register dead voters. One of them voted in 2022 14 years after dying.

“Working again with Samantha Frost and Richard McNamara on Douglas County’s voter rolls. County Clerk Dan Loomis registered 397 inactive voters. We have confirmed 40 of them are deceased. More than 100 are over 100 years old.”

During an on-camera interview, Right Side Rebel confronted Loomis with the record of the woman who reportedly died in 2008 but was marked as having voted in 2022.

According to Right Side Rebel, Loomis attempted to brush off the revelation by arguing that the journalist possessed information his office did not have.

Keep reading